2008 Winter Project Week:IGT IGSTK Slicer

From NAMIC

Key Investigators

BWH: Nobuhiko Hata, Haiying Liu, Junichi Tokuda

Objective

IGSTK provides connectivity with various kinds of tracking devices.
However, IGSTK does not support communication with tracking devices over the network.
The objective of this project is to establish Slicer-IGSTK connection through standard network to provides extensible and versatile way of configuration in image guided therapy.

Approach, Plan

We will design and implement a module to communicate with 3D slicer as a class of IGSTK. It connects to Tracker_Daemon through TCP/IP and controls MRML scene (tracker and real-time image).

Progress

Jan 2008 Project Half Week

We completed following tasks:

The bi-directional socket communication has been established between the Tracker Daemon in Slicer 3 and IGSTK Server which acquires tracking data from device and sends it to Tracker Daemon.